3 Complete the following pairs of sentences using the verb in italics. Use the Present Simple for one and the Present Continuous for the othe a come Alec a from They'll be here very soon. They by » have Lisa can't answer the phone, She a bath, She ‘ovo new pairs of jeans © think I that all politicians tell lies 1 about my girlfriend, She's in New York at the moment not enjoy We ______ this party at all. The music is too loud We going to big parties © wack Be quiet! 1 my favourite programme. Talways it on Thursday evenings. F see John's not at home, He the doctor about his sore throat, 1 the problem but I can’t help you. Sorry. 2 smell Mmmmm! Dinner good. What is it? Why you those roses? They're plastic! h use (Careful!) This room usually for big meetings. But today it for a party 4 Present Simple active or passive? 1 Which of the sentences are active and which are passive? 4 Luse this room as a stud. This room is used for meetings We feed our cats twice a day. But the dogs are fed just once a day. 2 One hour is 60 minutes, which is 3,600 seconds. A lot can happen in that time! Read about some of the things that happen all over the world. Put the verb in brackets into either Present Simple or Present Simple passive Exampis Every hour the planet Earth _ travels (travel) (66,620 miles around the sun Eleven earthquakes _are felt (feel) somewhere in the world, Look at what happens in just 60 minutes! 1 The word's population (row) by 9,200 2 £75 millon __ {spend on all kinds of weapons. 3 Yourheart ____ (beat) 4,800 times. 4 Your hair —_—— (grow) 0.18796 mm, 5 12,540,000 cans of Coca-Cola (arink) 6 916.500 McDonalds hamburgers (eat) T 17,485 bottles of whisky (produce) in Scotland. 8 1,426,940 eters (send) 9 The Pentagon in ‘Weshington {receive 8,200 telephone calls 10 £556,000 worth of goods ____ (een Harrods department store 14 12,000 pessengers ____ (pass) through Heathrow airport, 12 166 Volkswagen cars ___ (make) in Germany. Happiness! Unit 219LANGUAGE REVIEW Present Simple The Present Simple is used 1 to express an action which happens again and again, that is, a Aah, (Lis often found with these time expressions always every day usually I sometimes watk £0 work He usually wears st 2 to express a fact which is always true, or true for a long time, Teome from Argentina. He works ina bank, Present Continuous The Present Continuous is used: to express an activity that is in progress I'm writing a Thomas is listening to th posteard 10 my friend. teacher 2 to express an activity around now but not necessarily happening at this moment F'm veading a good book at the moment He's studying to be an accountant. State Verbs State verbs are not usually used in the Present are some state verbs: want understand believe remember hope know need own ~ think (opinion) have (possession) Passive ‘The uses of the Present Simple and the Present Continuous are the same in the passive, Champagne is made in France. My car is serviced every six months. My car is being serviced today LL) Grammar Reference: page 143. 20 Unit 2 Happiness! @ READING AND SPEAKING Pre-reading task 1 What do you think the life of a nun is like? What do they always do, sometimes do, and never do? 2. Which of the following do you think are important to nuns? sport clothes prayer food and drink children solitude hotels travel gardening reading television singing money Reading 1 Look at the pictures of Sister Wendy, What does she look like? What is she doing in the pictures? 2. Now read the text, Which of the things in the box above does she mention? Sister Wendy, TV Star! ster Wendy Beckett has been ‘| think God has been for 22 hours a day. But every few months she leaves her caravan.She speaks clearly and plainly, with none of the academic verbosity of art historians. TV viewers, love her common-sense wisdont. and are fascinated 10 watch a kind, elderly, bespectacled, nun who is so obviously delighted by all she sees. They are infected by her enthusiasm. Sister Wendy believes that although God wants her to have a life of prayer and solitary contemplation, He has also given her a mission to explain art in a simple manner to ordinary people. She says: “[think God has been very good to me. Really Tam a disaster as a person. Solitude is right for me because I'm not good at being wih other people. But of course I enjoy going on tone. T have a comfortable bed, a luxurious bath and good meals, but the joy is mild compared with the joy of solitude and silent prayer. T always rush back to my caravan. People find this hard to understand, I have never wanted anything else; | am a blissfully happy woman.’ sister Wendy’s love of God and art is matched only by her love of good food and wine. She takes delight in poring over menus, choosing a good wine and wondering whether the steak is tender enough for her to eat because she has no back teeth. However, she is not delighted by her performance on television. 1 can’t bear to watch myself on television. 1 feel that I look so silly — a ridiculous black- clothed figure. Thank God we don’t have a television at the monastery. I suppose I am famous in a way, but as 95% of my time is spent alone in my caravan, it really doesn’t affect me, Tm unimportant Sister Wendy earned £1,200 for the first series. The success of this resulted in an increase for the second series. The money is being used 10 provide new shower rooms for the Carmelite monastery. = Comprehension check 1 What do these numbers in the text vefer to? 16 22 20 95% 50 1,200 2 Are the following statements true (7) or false (X)? Correct the false ones a Sister Wendy spends a lot of time alone. b She travels 10 art capitals all over the world. ¢ Her television programmes are popular bec meets famous art historians and interviews them. She betieves that God wants her to lead this double life. enjoy being alove in her caravan any more She only eats plain food and she doesn't drink alcohol, 2 Some of her teeth are missing h She loves watching herself on television, i The other nuns at the monastery always watch her programmes on television. Sister Wendy is using the money she has earned to improve the monastery Language work 1 Complete the interview with Sister Wendy, 1 @ _ ? SW. When I was sixteen, Goodness, that fifty years ago! 1 @) — x SW. In Norfolk. In a Carmelite monastery. Well, not actually in the monastery but in the grounds, I have a caravan, Le ? SW. No, I don't. Justin Europe—that’s far enough! 1@ f SW. I don’t really know. P'm not sure why they're popular, [feel that I look so silly, but perhaps people find it funy to wateh a silly old nunt 1) J SW _ Yes, Tdo. OF course I do. The tours are really interesting and everybody enjoysa life of luxury now and then, I Tove good food and rink, but you know, I'm happiest on my own in my caravan a} 2 SW No, [don't Look ridiculous. I never watch if can help it 1 @ 2 SW. Tm osingitto help the monastery. Some new shower rooms are being built, Thats good, isn't it? 2 T.14_ Listen and check your answers. Discussion Work in groups, Look at the list in Exercise 2 of the Pre- reading task, Which of them are important to you? Why? Hoppinessl Unit 2 21@ VOCABULARY AND LISTENING 4 T.A5 Listen to three people talking about their favourite sport or leisure activity and make notes Sport under the following headings. 1 Make alist of as many sports and leisure activities as you can think of pq iN Which sport or activity are they . ae Geet eg \ y sea @ What equipment do they need? Where do they do it? 0 Q ~ Which picture goes with which sport? ~ Why do they like it? Are they good at it? 5. Work in pairs. Ask and answer questions, What sports do you do? Where? How often ..? Are you good at ..? @ WRITING Describing a person | Think of someone in your family Write three sentences about them, 2 Write in play, go, or do, There are three of each, Redd gor Saou eNO LB tennis athletics football rest of the class, exercises _ volleyball fishing 2. Which relative did you choose? jogging ‘aerobics skiing Why did you choose that person? Did you write about their Can you work out the rules? character, appearance, or both? 3. Look at the photograph and read some of the sports ar activities from your list and fill in the columns the deseription of Aunt Emily ise your dictionary to look up any new words that you need. ° 3 Choos below. 4 Go through the text sgain and bulked I the parts which play goalkeeper | stedium ball dhecnbeiherpiyskalaprrs footballer | football pitch | boots _— the parts which referee deseribe her character . the parts which describe her habits Find the following words (1 = line): quite (13) a litte . 7) rather (1.7 very (I. 10) extremely (113) | How do they change the meaning , | ‘of the adjectives which follow them? 22 Unit 2 Happiness!Numbers 1 Read aloud the following numbers, 18 80 406 72 128 90 19 850 1,520 36 247 5,000 100,000 2,000,000 When do we say and? Practise the numbers, Money £100 S0p £9.40 £47.99 $400 5,000FF 1,000DM Fractions % % 1% Decimals and percentages fall my relatives, I ike my Aunt Emily the best, She's my mother's 62 1725 50% _ youngest sister. She has never married, and she lives alone in a naragunartoe small village near Bath. She’s in her late fifties, but she’s still quite % 100% ‘young in spirit. She has a fair complexion, thick brown hair which she Dates ‘wears in a bun, and dark brown eyes, She has a kind face, and when (5 " ‘you meet her, the first ching you notice is her lovely, warm smile, Her Hee ie ee face isa lctle wrinkled now, but [think she is still rather attractive. She is the sort of person you can always go to if you have a problem. PRonecnumbers’ 01865 87676 O171 586.4431 15/7/94 30/10/67 he likes reading and gardening, and she goes for long walks over 10 Dthe hills with her dog, Buster. She's a very active person. Fither she’s 00 44 925 270992 making something, or mending something, or doing something to help “others. She does the shopping for some of the old people in the village. 3 (MAA) Read the numbers in She's extremely generous, but not very tolerant with people who don’t Exercise 2 aloud. Listen and agree with her. | hope that I am as happy and contented as she is when check your answers after eal v= Pim her age. line. 4 FRA6B Work in pairs, You will 6 She's ‘not very tolerant’ (1.13) This isa nice way of saying she is “intolerant? Hes Give short eSnversations TA Sometimes we tty to be polite by not using a negative adjective, We can each one these are some numbers, ‘ay not very + the opposite adjective ‘Write down the numbers you hear, Discuss what each aumber Use a tactful way to describe someone who i Someone who is refers to with your partner. | a rude © mean e cruel | b boring ugly F stupid 7 Who is ‘you’ in lines 6 (x2) and 8 in the text? 8 Writea similar description of a member of your family in about 200 words. Include the following: your opinion of the person physical description their character, habits, likes and dislikes. Happiness! Unit 2 23Telling tales Past tenses Active and passive Giving opinions gram 1 Look at the three sentences. What is the difference in meaning? 2 When Sylvia arrived home et eight o'clock, Tim cooked the dinner. b When Sylvia arrived home st eight o'clock, Tim was cooking the dinner. © When Sylvia arrived home et eight o'clock, Tim had cooked the dinner. 2 Match a picture with a sentence in exercise 1 24 Unit 3. Tolling tales PRESENTATION (1) Past Simple and Past Continuous 1 Look at the pictures. They tell the story af one of Aesop's fables. What can you see? What can you guess about the story? 2 Read the story, Put the verb in brackets into the Past Simple. They are all irregular. Complete the moral of “The Bald Knight’ at the end. SSS nce upon a time, a long time ago, there was a knight who, as he ca (grow) older, 124 _ (lose) all his hair. He BEAM! (become) as bald as an egg. He didn’t want anyone to see his bald head, so he UPA (buy) a beautiful, black, curly wig, Sos ne day some lords and ladies from the castle invited him to go hunting with them, so of course he _ 7 (put) on his beautiful wig. ‘How handsome I look!’ he 42446 _ (think) Pa de hameett Then he Set (set) off happily IA) forthe forest. yl } i 1?3 The following sentences have been taken from the PRACTICE story. Read it again and decide where they fit. 1 Grammar «a8 he was dressing in front of his mirror. eee Es Underline the correet verb form in the following b He was riding along, singing merrily to sentences ‘ himself, when he passed under an oak tree a While he rode{was riding in the forest he lost/was \ ad Josing his ¢ They were all still laughing when they b When I arrivedfwas arriving the party was in full arrived back at the castle, Sag With swing. Paul danced was daneing with Mary, and Pat and Peter drank were drinking champagne 4° TAT Listen and check your answers. © When I finished was finishing the ironing, I cooked! was cooking dinner. © Grammar questions yd How fast id they travetlwere they traveling when What tense are all the underlined verb forms in, their car hadfwas having a puncture! Exercise 3? © A police car passed/was passing us on the motorway What is the difference in meaning between the when we did/were doing 80 miles per hour. following two sentences? £ Look was taking a photograph of him while he aze/ He laughed when he fell off his horse 1vas eating am ice-cream. He was laughing when he fell off his horse. He didn't tke wasn’t Hiking the photo when he saw? snus seeing it h I'm sorry Lwoke/was weaking you. What were you dreaming/id you dream about? 2 Pronunciation 7.18 You will hear twelve regular verbs in the Past Simple. Put them in the right column, according to the pronunciation of -ed. fPfoweves a emrible thing happen piwi and £F£2 (all) off in full view of everyone. How they all laughed at him! At first the poor knight £222” (feel) very foolish but then he 544 _ (gee) the funny side :» of the situation, and he started laughing, too. he knight never (9 (wear) his wig again, ie Telling tales Unit 3 253 Speaking 1 Read what Sylvia did yesterday. 6.30 woke up 645 - 7:15 packed her suitcase 1.30 - 830 drove to the airport 9.20 ~ 10.18 _ flew to Edinburgh 11.00 - 1245 had a meeting 1.00 ~ 2.15 had lunch 2.30 - 445 visited a school 6.05 = 645 wrote = 7eport on the plane 830 - 9.00 cooked a meat 9.30 ~ 11.00 listened to musio 2. Work with a partner. Ask and answer questions about what Sylvia was doing at the times below. Example (“What was she doing at 6 o'clock in the morning? ( She was sleeping. ) 7.00am — 1130am 6.30 pm 8.00am 1.30pm 8.45 pm 9.4Sam 3.00pm — 10.00 pm 3. Write a similar fist about what you id yesterday. Ask and answe questions with your partner about different times of the day. Example (What were you doing at ») 7 o'clock in the evening? / | was having dinner. ) 26 Unit Telling tales 4 Life stories ‘Work in pairs. Join a line in A with a word in B and a line in € to make your own story about the lives of grandmother and grandfather. Read your story to others in the class a B They met and fell in love ~ They got married They had their first son they returned to Britain. they were living in Hong Kong, the Second World War. They lived in Hong Kong when | they were working abroad. They had five more sons while | the summer of 1997 ‘They sent their sons to during "|| five years. boarding schoo! for their marriage. They lived in six different over forty-five years. countries they were working together in They were happily married Malaysia My grandfathor died T.19 Listen and check the true story of their lives. 1 How different is your version? PRESENTATION (2) Past Simple and Past Perfect 1 Look at the pictures. They tell the story of another of Aesop's fables, ‘What can you see? What do you think the story is about? 2 7.20. Close your books and listen to the story. Is it the same as yours? 3. Read the story and complete the moral at the end. The Farmer and his Sons ° Oo O there was once an old, dying farmer (1). Before he died he wanted to teach his three sons how to be good farmers. So he called them to him and said, ‘My boys, » before I die T want you to know that there is a great treasure buried in the vineyard. Promise me that you will look for it when I am dead.’ Ihe sons promised and (2) they began looking for the treasure They worked very hard in the hot sun (3). In their minds they pictured boxes of gold coins, diamond necklaces and other such things:4. Where do the following sentences fit in the story? Put a number 1-6 in the boxes a as soon as their father had died, [] » who had worked hard in his vineyard all his tite [] © what their father had meant by the great treasure, 7] 4. and all the time as they were working they wondered what their father had left for them [7] ¢ They felt that all their harel work had been for nothing. [1] Soon they had dug up every inch of the vineyard, [7] 5 Listen again and check your answers. (4) But they found not a single penny. They were very upset. (5) But then the grapes started to appear on the vines and their grapes were the biggest and best in the neighbouthood, and they sold them for a lot of money. 1s ‘ow they understood (6) and they lived happily and. wealthily ever after. ‘THe MORAL OF THIS STORY IS: HARD WORK BRINGS ... @ Grammar questions What tense are all the underlined verb forms in Exercise 4? Which sentence is true? The sons looked for the sreastre when their father was dying, The sons looked for the treasure when thelr father thal died. — What is the difference in meaning between a and b? PRACTICE 1 Discussing grammar Work in pairs and discuss your answers, I Discuss the difference in meani following pairs of sentences. between the a When I arrived at the party, they were drinking champagne. When I arrived at the party, they d drank the champagne. b When I got home, the children went to bed When I got home, the children had gone to bed © They thanked their doing to help them pass the exam. They thanked their teacher for everything she'd done to help them pass the exam. sacher for everything she was 4d He told me that they were staying at the Ritz Hotel He told tne that they had stayed at the Ritz Hotei Join the sentences using the conjunction in brackets, Change one veth into the Past Perfect Example ‘The children went to bed. We watched television, (After) Afier the children had gone to hed, we watched television, a [took an aspirin, My headache disappeared. (when) b- He drove 200 mites. He stopped for a break. (after) © T couldn't pay for my ticket. A thief stole my wallet. (because) She passed her driving test. She bought a car. {as soon as) ¢ Tdidn't go to Italy. [learnt Italian. (until) f He didn't tell the policeman, He took the money (that) g We didn't tell Anna, George rang. (that) Teling tales Unit 3272 Dictation and questions Ask your teacher questions about the gaps in the following text, Write in the replies the teacher gives you to complete the story. Example Last summer Wanda and Roy went on holiday to here?) (Where did they go? 7 Last summer Wanda and Roy went on holiday to a (Where?), Every day they @ ____ and — (Whai?), One morning they were swimming (3) when a huge wave (4) ‘was very upset because (5) ‘The next day they were sunbathing (6) (Where?) and Wanda was wearing (7) a (What?) when sueidenly there was another huge Wave, whi Why?) 8) (Whauldo?). She was furious, but then she looked down and to her amazement she saw (9) —_ Mar 3 Stress and intonation 1 Student A-— Read out a statement from your fst. Student B_ Answer Student A with the correct response from your ist Student A | went co the airport but | couldn't catch the plane. {was homesick while | was living in New York | met my boyfriend'sigirifriend’s parents last Sunday. My grandfather had two sons from his first marriage. | told everyone the good news. ‘As soon as I saw him | knew something was wrong. Student B Hadn't they heard it already? ‘Oh dear! Hod you forgotten your passport? Really? | didn’t know he'd been married before. Ohl Madi’ you met them before? ‘Oh dear! What had happened? Poor youl! Had you never lived abroad before? 2 7.21 Listen and check your answers, Pay particular attention to the stress and intonation 3 Change roles and practise the conversations again, Choose one or two and make them into longer conversations, 28 Unit 3. Tolling tales (Where?) (Wharido?). Wanda, LANGUAGE REVIEW. Narrative tenses ‘The Past Skmple 1 The Past Simple is used to express a finished action in the past We played tennis yesterday She saw Peter last Sunday and they went for a walk They met in 1980 but they didn’ marry ati 1993, 2 Teis also used to express a past habit, When Twas a child we went ¢0 Spain every summer L wore a uniform at school ‘The Past Continuous, ‘The Past Continuous is used to express an activity in progress in the past ‘The events of a story are in the Past Simple, but descriptions and interrupted activities are in the Past Continuous When we arrived, he was making some cofiee When we arrtved he made sons coffee i was raining and she was feeling miserable when suddenly she saw Peter and she smiled again. ‘The Past Perfect ‘The Past Perfect is used to make elear that one action in the past happened before another action in the past. When we arrived home Anna had gone ta bed. When we arrived home Anna went to bed, (2Q) Grammar Reference: page 145.@ VOCABULARY Art, music and literature 4 Use your d ctionary to look up any new words. 1 Look at the nouns below and write them in the correct column, composer poem — author cil painting instrument band palette sketch tune chapter orchesva bugle biography brush detective story sanjo portrait fiction play drawing novel pianist painter Pop group Which of the following verbs can go with the nouns in Exercise 1? play playin draw tune read write compose paint conduct hum 3 Complete each of the following sentences with a verb in the right tense and a noun. & Agatha Christie many famous b Teouldn't put the book down until 1 the last € [don't know the words of the song but I can the The only Lean is the piano, € Picasso often unusual of his giclfriends The of Princess Diana by the journalist, Andrew Morton. Listen! ‘The show is starting. Can you hear the 2 They their instruments, h My brother is a soldier. He the busle in the army — Before I painted the picture 1 in pencil a quick 4 Work in groups, Do you have a favourite book or poam, piece of music, or painting? Why do you like it? ‘Think about it for a few minutes then compare your favourites with the rest of the class. @ READING AND SPEAKING The writer, the painter and the musician Pre-reading task 1 T.22 You are going to read about the lives of three famous people, Agatha Christie, Pablo Picasso, and Scott Joplin: — Why were they famous? — Look at and/or listen to their most popular works, Do you know any more? 4 Guemica 1997 by Pablo Picasso The Entertainer by Seatt Joplin 2. Discuss the following questions about the people. What nationality were they? Which century were they born in? Which one do you know most/least about? Tolling tales UnitReading Work in three groups, Group A Read about the writer. Group B- Read about the painter: Group C Read about the musician. Read your extract and answer the questions about your person, Try to guess the words underlined trom the context. Then use your dictionary to check the words Where was she/he born? When was she/he born? What do you learn about her/his childhood? Which people played a part in her/his care Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie is possibly the world’s most famous detective story writer. She wrote 79 novels and several plays. Her sales + outnumber those of William Shakespeare. However, bebind her ‘A A scene from The Mousetrap, which London on 25 November 1952 and is still running today. During World War I, while she 5. What do you think were the most important events in hecthis lie? 6 What do you learn of her/his works? 7 When did she/he die? Which of the following numbers or dates relate to your person? What do they refer to? 50 79 6000 111314 1e82 1920 1928 19371952 4,680,000, When you have finished, find a partner from each af the other groups and go through the questions together. comparing information. In 1914, at the beginning of the war, she had married Archibald Christie but the marriage was 2s unhappy. It didn’ fast and they divorced in 1926, That year there was a double tragedy in her life because her much-loved mother died Agatha suffered a nervous breakdown, 1» and one night she abandoned her car and mysteriously disappeared. She ‘went missing for 11 days and was eventually found in a hotel in Harrogate, in the North of Englans. ssTtis interesting to note that it was ‘while she was suffering si much that she wrote one of her mascerpieces, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd. ‘Agatha desperately wanted solieude wand developed very bitter feelings tosrards the media because the newspapers had given her a hard time ‘over her breakdown and disappearance. She was determined se never to et them enter her private life again and she buried herself in her work. On 25 November 1952 her play The Mousetrap opened in 4,680,000 words was a painfully shy 20 was working in a hospital woman whose life was often lonely dispensary, she learned about and unhappy. chemicals and poisons, which 1» She was born in 1890 in Devon, proved very useful to her in her later the third child of Clarissa and career. She wrote her first detective Frederick Miller, and grew imo a as novel, The Mysterious Affair at beautiful and sensitive girl with Seyles, in 1920. In it she introduced waist-length golden hair. She dida’t Hercule Poirot, the Belgian detective 1» go co school but was educated at_ who appeared in many subsequent home by her mother. Her father died novels. Her other main detective when she was 11 and both she and se wats an elderly spinster called Miss hher mother were grief-stricken Marple. 20. Ui 3 Tolling tales London. Today, over 40 years late, it is tll running, Iris the longest running show in the whole world, She enjoyed a very happy second marriage to Max Mallowan, an archaeologist. Hler detective skills os were a help to him in his excavations in Syris and Iraq, By successfully staying our of the limelight she ultimately found happiness with her beloved husband, She died peacefully in 1976,The Painter (On 25 October 1881 a litle boy was barn in Malaga, Spain. It was a dificult bien and te help him breathe, cigar smoke \was blown into his nese But despite boeing the youngest ever smoker, this baby orew up to be one of the 20th Ccenturys greatest painters—Pablo Picasso. Picasso showed his truy exceptional {alent from a very young age: His first vword was fépiz (Spanish for pencil) and he learned to drew before he could tak Ho was the only son in the family and vary gooeslonking, sa he was thoroughly spol: He hated school and often refused {0 go unless his doting parents allowed him to take one of his father's pet pigeons with him! ‘Apart from pigeons, his great leve was ar, and when in 1891 his father, who was ‘an amateur artist, got a job as a drawing teacher ata college, Pablo went with him 1 the college, He often watched his father pant and sometimes was alowed to help. One evening his father was painting a picture oftheir pigeons when hie had to leave the room. He returned to The Musician Ever since i suas the musical theme in the fabm “The Sting’, ‘there are fox people coho have not sapped their feet tothe bit plano tune, The Entertainer’—the most farnous exposition of the Amerivan musician, Scott Joplin. Scott was born in Texas in 1868, into a poor but musical black family. His father, who was «freed slave, played the violin, and his mother played the banjo and sang, Scott played the violin and bugle but his favourite instrument ost was his neighbour's piano. His father worked extra hours co buy him « battered old grand piano, and soon Seott was playing by ear negro tunes, blues, and spirituals. Music flowed naturally from his fingers and he quickly became the talk of the town, Scott didn't learn to read music until he was 11, ‘when an old German music teacher spotted his talent and gave him five, formal piano lessons, He earned to play the works of such composers as Bach, Beethoven, and Mozart as well as his improvised music. Thus when he started to ‘write music, his tunes were a ‘wonclenful mixture of classical European find that Pablo had completed the picture land it was s0 amazingly beautiful and se lfelke that he gave his son his own palette and brushes and never painted ‘again, Pablo was ust 13. From then onwards there was no stopping him. Many people realized that she Was a genius buthe disappointed those who wanted him to become a ‘racitional painter. He was always breaking the rules of artistic tradition and shocked the publ with his strange and powerful pictures. He is probably best known for is ‘Cubist’ pictures, which Used only simple geometric shapes. His paintings of people were often mace up Of triangles and squares with their features in the wrong piace. Hie work ‘changed our ideas about art, and to millins of people modern art means the ‘work of Picasso. Guernica, which he painted in 1937, records the bombing of that litle Basque town during the Spanish Civil War, and is undisputedly one of the masterpieces of modern painting Picasso created over 8,000 paintings, drawings and sculptures, Today a ‘Picasso’ costs several milion pounds, ‘Once, when the French Minister of Culture was visting Picasso, the artist accidentally spilt some paint on the Minister's trousers. Picasso apolocized ‘and wanted to pay for them to be cleaned, fut the Minister said, ‘Non! Please, Monsieur Picasso, ust sign my trousers! ts Picasso died of hear failure during an attack of influenza in 1973. and Affican beat. This unique style was known as Ragtime, and was played everywhere in the USA in the early 1900s by 2sboth black and white musicians. In 1882, when Score was 14, his mother died and he left hhome to seck his fortune in St. Louis, In the 1880s, St. Louis ‘was noisy and busting with life. The waterfiont of the Mississippi River was fall of gangsters, gamblers, and go sailors, The sound of music was everywhere—black, white and mixed. The hot steamy nights were filled with blues, working songs, banjos, and honky tonk pianos. Scott was soon playing Ragtime piano in cheap bars on the waterfiont. & This was a rough, tough area of the eity where arguments over girls, whisk, and money were settled with fists and guns, Scott gtew up very fast and his musical talent continued to develop. All in all he wrote about 50 piano rags. 49 Scott Joplin died in 1917. Today he is the undisputed King of Ragtime, thanks to his natural ability, his unusual musical education, and the popularity of the film, Phe Sting. Telling ties Unit 3 31Comprehension check 1 Read the other two extracts quickly, Help each other with any new words, particularly those words which dare underlined in your text, 2. Here are some answers about all three people. Write in the questions a What ? ‘She was beautiful and shy, with long, golden hair b Why ? To help him breathe, after a difficult birth. © How dl By working extra hours, a Why Because they gave her a hard time over her breakdown, and disappearance, © When ? In 1937. € Where To St. Louis, Language work | ‘The Mousetrap’ was written by Agatha Christie, In the sentence above, was written is an example of the Past Simple passive Find some more examples of this in the texts on pages 30 and 31, and put a box [] around them. (CL) Grammar Reference: page 144, 2 Put the auxiliaries was, had, or didn’t into the gaps. a Agatha Christie educated at home. She go to school, b She found in a hotel in Harrogate, after she been missing for 11 days, © She stop writing while she suffering from a nervous breakdown Pablo Picasso like going to school unless he allowed to take one of his father’s pigeons with him. © His father paint again after Pablo completed the picture of the pigeons. £ Some paint trousers when he spilt on the French minister's visiting Picasso. g Scott Joplin left home after his mother died. 32 Unit Taling soles Note-taking and discussion Choose one of the most famous writers, painters oF musicians in your country and write some notes about himvher. Discuss your notes with a partner. Is helshe alive or dead? What is/was he/she? What works do you know? = Do you like hisfher work? Why? Why not? — What do you know about hisher life? @ WRITING AND LISTENING Adverbs in a narrative Work in pairs. 1 Think about the worst holiday you ever had. Write some notes about it, then swap information ‘with your partner, 2 Look at the top of page 33 and read about Jack and Liza's holiday. Put the words on the right into the correct place in each line, and make any necessary changes to the punctuationago, Jack and a decided to g for New Year. They suddenly somewhere t want to stay in a hotel with crowds of people and they were delighted when they saw an so really advertisement in the Sunday Times for a holiday flat ina village near Oxford. It was no ordinary flat. It was on the (op floor of an | Howey old Tudor mansion. ‘They booked it and on New immediately Year's Eve they set off in the ear. It was raining and Although heavily freezing cold. They were happy and excited. They had been driving for three hours wh nearly they saw the house in the distance, It looked finally ‘magnificent with tall chimneys and a long, wide ineredibly drive. They drove up to the huge front door, went up the steps, and knocked. Nothing happened. loudly They knocked again. The door opened and a more loudly Eventually slowly ‘mall, wild-looking, old lady stood there. 3 7.23. Listen to Jack and Liza talking about what happened next and complete this part of the story, The old lady was wearing She was carrying 14 The house was a When she was leading them upstairs ‘When they saw the rooms they couldn't believe their eyé Read the end of the story. Put the words on the right into the correct place. hhen they got outside again the rain had turned to snow. They ran to the car, laughing. They | hysterically felt that they had been released from a prison and now they wanted to be with lots of people. They | desperately drove to the next village and as midnight was fortunately just striking, they found a hotel with a room for the night. ‘Happy New Year!” eried Jack, as he kissed the surprised receptionist om both cheeks. “You warmly “have no idea how beautiful your hotel is!” i YMG) story of your worst holiday in about 250 words. n was it? Where was it? Who were you with? Why was it bad?